Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Steam cleaning recipie

 Just so I never lose it -  here is Shannon Lush's recipie for steam cleaning carpets:
Use :
half the manufacturer's cleaner plus
2 cups of each of the following - bi-carb of soda, white vinegar, methylated spirits and
2 teaspoons of each of the following glycerine and eucalyptus or lavender oil.

 
 

Saturday, May 17, 2014

Overnight disasters in the garden.

Well, Sydney has been quite warm, and dry, but something obviously changed on Friday night because I came out to:
A very sick frangipani with red/yellow dots on the back of the leaves, and falling leaves.
It looked like frangipani rust which looks like this
                                                        
Frangipani rust